Most Holy Trinity dedicates memorial site
The word “surprise” characterizes key parts of a new memorial site at Most Holy Trinity Parish, most especially the 4-year-old it honors.
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New director of Native American Ministry begins serving
Mill Hll Missionary Father Gregory Rice began his role as director of Native American Ministry for the Diocese of Phoenix last month. He will serve two Native American parishes and their respective 11 missions.
Harrowing journey for family of refugees ends in Phoenix
St. Patrick parishioners welcome Cuban refugee family after a long journey to the United States.
Blessed John Paul II biographer to visit Valley Jan. 26
George Weigel, who penned a best-selling biography of Blessed John Paul II, will speak Jan. 26 at Xavier College Preparatory’s Center for the Performing Arts. His appearance will raise funds for the John Paul II Resource Center for Theology of the Body and Culture.
‘Incarnate of the Virgin Mary’: Church prepares to celebrate Christmas
The Christmas season begins with the Dec. 24 evening vigil commemorating the birth of Christ and ends with the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, Jan. 13.
School fundraisers get creative
Students at Catholic schools around the Phoenix Diocese walked, jogged, read and computed their way toward fundraising goals last month. At St. Mary-Basha in Chandler, students took part in the fourth annual ‘Eaglethon’ Nov. 16, bringing in $106,000 which combined with sponsors’ gifts brought the total to $132,000.
Our Faith: The Incarnation: ‘God with us’
The Incarnation is a result of an incomprehensible love God has for each and every one of us, and we recite this belief when we pray the Nicene Creed: “and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man.”
Catholics Matter: Becky Greene: Former secularist embraces Catholic faith
Becky Green decided to become a Catholic and planned to enter at the Easter vigil but was deterred by tragedy. On Holy Thursday, her 55-year-old father, en route to Phoenix for the ceremony, suffered a fatal heart attack.
Catholic charitable organizations hope for generous year-end giving
Catholic charitable and educational organizations around the Phoenix Diocese are hoping taxpayers will remember them as they prepare to celebrate Christmas and the year...
New chapel window depicts faithful woman, honors another
Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted blesses a stained glass window depicting St. Gianna Beretta Molla at the Diocesan Pastoral Center’s Virginia G. Piper Chapel, which is dedicated to Blessed John Paul II. Local Catholic Armando Ruiz donated the window in honor of his late wife, Peggy, who died in April.